In Ike house everyone was asleep, and one could hear only the frozen trees whining outside the windows.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the afternoon Lydia was urgent with the rest of the girls to walk to Meryton, and to see how everybody went on; but Elizabeth steadily opposed the scheme.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

She spoke her last words to the housekeeper in cheerful tones, and when she seated herself in the carriage her eyes were bright and her cheeks blooming under the dismal bonnet.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I insist on hearing every word, from first to last.'
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[ The name of the well known Roman knight, to whom Cicero addressed his Epistles, was Titus Pomponius Atticus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

this evining after we had encamped, we traded for two horses with nearly the same articles we had offered at the village; these nags Capt. C. and myself intend riding ourselves; haveing now a sufficiency to transport with ease all our baggage and the packs of the men.—we killed six ducks in the course of the day; one of them was of a speceis which I had never before seen I therefore had the most material parts of it reserved as a specimine, the leggs are yellow and feet webbed as those of the duckandmallard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them, to the envy and wonderment of the other freshettes, who, lacking Philippa’s sponsorship, were doomed to remain rather on the fringe of things during their first college year.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Her estates were confiscated, her eunuchs and domestics devoted to the most inhuman tortures; and several innocent and respectable matrons, who were honored with her friendship, suffered death, on a false accusation of adultery.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

he said to her, and she laughed with her mouth, her eyes wide and dilated.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds might have existed which used their wings solely as flappers, like the logger-headed duck (Micropterus of Eyton); as fins in the water and front legs on the land, like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like the Apteryx.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

In his earlier writing there is not a little that is unworthy of him: much in which one seeks vainly for that note of distinction and personality which sounds so constantly throughout the finer body of his work.
— from Edward MacDowell: A Study by Lawrence Gilman

"She was picked up during the height of the storm with her express wagon.
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

Just before his breath left his body, he opened his eyes, which glistened with the brightness of early manhood.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

And aloud, meaning to say some thing else—something courteous and common place, he exclaimed, "Why did you do it?" Sylvia glanced up at him in surprise.
— from The Adventure of Princess Sylvia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Her education was entirely of a domestic character, there being no schools in the region where she dwelt.
— from Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Her eyes were flashing.
— from His Little World: The Story of Hunch Badeau by Samuel Merwin

In the autumn he was quite out of sorts, body and mind, more at war with himself than he ever was in his life before.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley